On 04/16/2013 11:23 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-04-15 2:02 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Were this one of my systems (none of which is in a prod scenario, so >> take it with a grain of salt), I'd emerge -e --keep-going @system, and >> then emerge --resume a few times. You're stuck in something not unlike a >> bootstrap scenario. > > Ok, well, the DB was down, and I had the data backed up, so last resort, > I switched back to the 32bit kernel, rebooted, and started the first > emerge -e --keep-going @system, and left for home to continue working on > it from there... > > It was done by the time I got home (about 25 minute drive), so didn't > take nearly as long as I had feared - mostly because about 28 packages - > most of them the ones that take a really long time (like glib, glibc and > gcc) died almost immediately... > > After the first one completed, I did emerge --resume until everything > was emerged. > > Then I started it all over again, and this time, *everything* recompiled > successfully! > > But, apache still wouldn't start up. The error was PHP related, so, I > rebuilt that with emerge -vu (with 5.4 masked so it would pull in the > latest update to 5.3 since emerging -vuk (reinstalling the quickpkg'd > masked version) didn't work - and this time PHP successfully updated, > and presto, everything is now working as expected! > > I'm still planning on finishing up the new server (had already started > on it) and migrating the DB to it, but now the pressure is off. > > So, massive thanks! to Michael for the suggestion (had heard of totally > rebuilding the entire system using -e and --keep-going, but never done > it)... and of course, gentoo is amazing.
To be clear, you didn't rebuild the entire system. You rebuilt core packages. To rebuild the entire system, it'd be: emerge -e @world # Plus whatever else there is. You're still at risk of non-@system packages having risky opcodes. Sounds like PHP turned out to be one of those. You will probably need to rebuild others. But I'm very glad I was able to help. :)
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